Whenever there are a number of road accidents, people always blame the road.

Drivel, poppycock, rubbish. There is nothing wrong with the roads. It is the useless, incompetent, speed-mad, so-called drivers who are the problem.

I would hazard a guess that at least 60 per cent drive far too fast for their driving capabilities.

Then, when they have an accident, they wonder why, like the old saying: A bad workman always blames his tools.

Drive on any dual carriageway and no matter what speed you are driving, they tear past as if the end of the world is nigh.

Speeding and driving too close to the vehicle in front (tail-gating) cause 90 per cent of all accidents.

These same people (I won't call them drivers) act the same way, regardless of the weather conditions, rain, ice or fog, and I bet these are the same people who never use their signals.

I wonder how they ever passed their tests.

As far as blaming the road is concerned, I have written a number of letters over the past few years to ask why Oxfordshire lags far far behind other counties when it comes to having 'black spot' signs (yes, there are such things). But you never see any in Oxfordshire.

It does not seem to matter how many people are killed in this county. What does it take to get the signs put up?

I have spent most of my working life as a Class 1 HGV driver. I went from a push-bike to a 32-ton articulated lorry and I passed the test first go.

Sorry if I sound swell headed, but I have never heard of anyone else having done the same.

I have been retired for eight years and, at 73, all I drive is my own car, which seems like a Dinky toy, compared with driving all over England, Scotland and Wales on the big stuff.

Yet I cringe when I read that people still cannot pass a driving test in a little car.

God, give me strength.

ROY THOMAS Woodlands Park Radley